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...director of finance, big, blustery, toothy David F. Houlihan, 39, a Price, Waterhouse & Co. partner who reorganized the Maritime Commission's finance division in 1937, returned to Washington last year as OPM shipping consultant...
...combined powers of OPM and OPA-and no more...
...OPM was abolished and in one month Nelson did all but one of the following...
...this comes at the worst possible time, and the industry is stuck with a colossal lack of equipment. Only last September OPM actually curtailed new bus and trolley production. Since Pearl Harbor the bars have been lifted, insofar as A-3 materials priorities can lift any bar. But the 7,000 city-type busses now on order represent more than a full year's normal production...
...second week, was a step which went almost unnoticed outside its own offices. On Nelson's desk each morning bald Statistician Stacy May began to place a fat progress report: day-by-day, company-by-company deliveries of armaments and armament parts stacked against the quotas. In OPM, a lazy or incompetent chief could sit motionless at his desk for months without having anyone the wiser. Under Nelson's WPB, any failures should show up at once in the morning report on his desk...